Suburb rent · Rongotea, Manawatu

What it costs to rent in Rongotea

The normal flat in Rongotea rents for about $575 a week, from government bond records. No one has reviewed a flat here yet, but the rent figures still tell you what living in the area costs.

66 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

66

Rental properties

~$575/wk

Most pay $550 to $575

Approximate normal flat

-4.2% in a year

+97%

Growth, 10 years

+7% a year

+44%

Growth, 5 years

+7.5% a year

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jan 2026. Rongotea spans 2 statistical areas, so the typical rent shown is approximate (a bond-weighted average).

How Rongotea compares

vs Manawatu

How rent here measures up against the wider city, so you can tell whether Rongotea is dearer, cheaper, or rising faster than Manawatu as a whole.

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Rongotea grew 97% over 10 years, against Manawatu’s 79%.

That is 18 points faster than Manawatu as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

Fifteen years of Rongotea rent. The tilde (~) marks figures that are a close estimate, because Rongotea is split across a few statistical areas and the rent is averaged across them.

~$575/wkapproximate normal flat, 2026
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What the normal flat rentsWhere most rents fall

Rents jump every January because that is when most student flats sign new leases for the year, and brand new tenancies rent higher than the standing stock. The line settles back by autumn. Source: MBIE bond data.

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